Economic Symposium 2012 features economist Patty Silverstein, broker-analyst Jack O’Connor

By Mark Samuelson

With Denver’s market showing fresh signs of a turnaround, The Denver 100 Real Estate is staging Economic Symposium 2012, to be held at Colorado Golf Club, 7:30 a.m. April 17, featuring nationally known economist Patty Silverstein and market analyst Jack O’Connor, Broker Owner of The Denver 100.

Economist Patty Silverstein

Economist Patty Silverstein

Admission, including a continental breakfast, is free and is limited to 100 attendees. more »

Five blocks up Blake from Coors Field, 11 brownstones with garages, rooftop decks, back on market at a steep discount

By Mark Samuelson

Even in trendy areas around Coors Field, builders overbuilt the LoDo market with condos and townhouses in 2008-09, and plenty of units would head back to the bank. But now, after a year that saw huge absorption, much of that Ballpark product is gone – meaning that 11 “urban brownstones” that developer Craft DeLay took back from the bank, each re-opening for sales tomorrow on Blake five blocks from the ballpark, with a 2-car attached garage and a rooftop deck – are stepping into a very different market.

Blake 27 Fri 2-24-12 Interior of 3-bedroom urban brownstone you can tour. Craft DeLay has eleven homes coming back on the market five blocks from Coors Field, all with 2-car attached garages and rooftop decks, all substantially reduced.

Prices for those 2-bedroom and 3-bedroom brownstones at Blake 27 now begin at $310,000…and top out at $508,000 for a couple of premium end units that have windows on three sides. When Craft DeLay began negotiations to get hold of Blake 27 from the original developer, the very least expensive was $477,800 and the top-priced unit was at $835,000. more »